August 9
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- But then, on August 10, 1920, black cabaret singer Mamie Smith recorded a Perry Bradford tune, "Crazy Blues," and it was a huge success, eventually selling over two million copies.
- 1930 - Betty Boop premiered in her first cartoon, Dizzy Dishes.
== Births ==* 1959 - Kurtis Blow, American rapper
- 1959 - Stuart Hughes, Canadian actor
- 1961 - Brad Gilbert, American tennis player
- 1961 - John Key, Leader of the New Zealand National Party
- 1961 - Amy Stiller, American actress
- 1962 - Kevin Mack, American football player
- 1962 - Louis Lipps, American football player
- 1963 - Whitney Houston, American diva and actress
- 1964 - Brett Hull, Canadian-born hockey player
- 1967 - Deion Sanders, American football player
- 1968 - Gillian Anderson, American actress
- 1968 - Eric Bana, Australian actor
- 1968 - Karyn Parsons, American actress
- 1968 - Sam Fogarino,drummer for New York City-based band Interpol
- 1969 - Troy Percival, baseball player
- 1970 - Rod Brind'Amour, hockey player
- 1970 - Chris Cuomo, American TV journalist
- 1970 - Thomas Lennon, American actor
- 1970 - Arion Salazar, American musician (Third Eye Blind)
- 1971 - Davide Rebellin, Italian cyclist
- 1971 - Mack 10, American rapper
- 1971 - James Kim, technology reporter (d. 2006)
- 1972 - Juanes, Colombian singer
- 1972 - A-Mei, Taiwanese singer
- 1973 - Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
- 1973 - Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
- 1974 - Mahesh Babu, Indian film actor
- 1974 - Matt Morris, baseball player
- 1975 - Robbie Middleby, Australian soccer player
- 1976 - Jessica Capshaw, American actress
- 1976 - Rhona Mitra, English actress
- 1977 - Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
- 1977 - Mikael Silvestre, French footballer
- 1977 - Adewale Ogunleye, American football player
- 1977 - Jason Frasor, American baseball player
- 1978 - Audrey Tautou, French actress
- 1978 - Michael Scofield, Fox River Eight Fugitive
- 1980 - Ryu Seung-beom, South Korean actor
- 1982 - Danieal Manning, American football player
- 1983 - Ashley Johnson, American actress
- 1985 - Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
- 1985 - Luca Filippi, Italian racing driver
- 1985 - JaMarcus Russell, American football player
- 1989 - Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
- 1990 - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
Deaths
- 117 - Trajan, Roman Emperor (b. 53)
- 378 - Valens, Roman Emperor (killed in battle) (b. 328)
- 803 - Byzantine Empress Irene
- 1107 - Emperor Horikawa of Japan (b. 1079)
- 1173 - Najm ad-Din Ayyub, father of Saladin
- 1250 - King Eric IV of Denmark (b. 1216)
- 1534 - Cardinal Cajetan, Italian theologian (b. 1470)
- 1601 - Michael the Brave, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1558)
- 1634 - William Noy, English jurist (b. 1577)
- 1720 - Simon Ockley, English orientalist (b. 1678)
- 1744 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
- 1816 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
- 1837 - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
- 1886 - Samuel Ferguson, Northern Irish poet and artist (b. 1810)
- 1919 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (b. 1857)
- 1942 - Edith Stein, (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) (executed) (b. 1891)
- 1945 - Harry Hillman, American athlete (b. 1881)
- 1945 - Robert Hampton Gray, last Canadian Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1917)
- 1957 - Carl Clauberg, Nazi doctor (b. 1898)
- 1962 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1877)
- 1967 - Joe Orton, English writer (b. 1933)
- 1969 - Abigail Folger, American heiress (murdered) (b. 1943)
- 1969 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish writer (murdered) (b. 1936)
- 1969 - Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1903)
- 1969 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist (murdered) (b. 1933)
- 1969 - Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b. 1943)
- 1969 - Steven Parent, American student (murdered) (b. 1951)
- 1975 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (b. 1906)
- 1979 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
- 1985 - Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player (b. 1927)
- 1988 - Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (b. 1905)
- 1995 - Jerry Garcia, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1942)
- 1996 - Sir Frank Whittle, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician (b. 1910)
- 2000 - John Harsanyi, Hungarian-born economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Paul Samson, British guitarist (Samson) (b. 1953)
- 2002 - Peter Neville, anarchist, sociologist, and peace activist
- 2003 - Ray Harford, English footballer and manager (b. 1945)
- 2003 - Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Matthew McGrory, American actor (b. 1973)
- 2005 - Judith Rossner, American novelist (b. 1935)
- 2006 - James van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914)
Notes
- Hieronymus Bosch
- P. Adams Sitney
- Robert Aldrich
- Charles Cros
- Ernst Haeckel
- Alexandre Alexeieff
- Léonide Massine
- Refus Global
- Hermann Hesse
- Kurtis Blow
- Johann August Apel
- Eileen Gray
- Sharon Tate
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